Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
2025 Family & Home Prize FIRST PLACE WINNER: “THIS COUNTRY CALLED LIFE” By Bertha Crombet
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize “THIS COUNTRY CALLED LIFE“ by Bertha Crombet Crombet’s poem captures the persistent, daily, and quiet anxiety attached to one’s…
April 2026 Deadlines: 9 Contests and Magazines with Deadlines This Month
With plenty of opportunities to get your poetry out into the world this month, consider submitting your work! It’s a prime time to submit to chapbook contests, apply for residencies, and get your poems published. Don’t forget that acceptances and…
With plenty of opportunities to get your poetry out into the world this month, consider submitting your work! It’s a prime time to submit to chapbook contests, apply for residencies, and get your poems published. Don’t forget that acceptances and…
2025 Family & Home Prize SECOND PLACE WINNER: “all the men i love carry pocketknives” By Emily Clarke
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize: “all the men i love carry pocketknives“ by Emily Clarke. “do you know anything about manhood?”—a question that haunts…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize: “all the men i love carry pocketknives“ by Emily Clarke. “do you know anything about manhood?”—a question that haunts…
2025 Family & Home Prize THIRD PLACE WINNER: “한 han” By Laura Kim
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize: “한 han“ by Laura Kim. Kim’s poem renders loneliness as absence—as rituals of longing, like the lighting of matches;…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize: “한 han“ by Laura Kim. Kim’s poem renders loneliness as absence—as rituals of longing, like the lighting of matches;…
Read Our Award Winning Chapbooks
Opportunity Cost
read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Kazim Ali
// by Abby Johnson //
IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING
read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Carl Phillips
// by Frederick Speers //
Shadow Black
read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Jericho Brown
// by Naima Tokunow //
How Often I Have Chosen Love
read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Joshua Roark
// by Xiao Yue Shan //
